From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:47:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sn87hesk.fsf@ID-24456.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202110209.g1B295Y06552@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:09:05 -0700 (MST)")
Hello Richard,
you wrote:
> I think that is confusing, and inconvenient in a practical
> sense. It would be much better to write
> [...]
> 1. The former makes it clear what it means.
I dare say it's only a matter of habit. In my opinion the syntax
isn't very plausible or readable.
> The latter could mean various different things and you can't
> guess which.
It is an agreement, as the former syntax also is.
> It could just be a mistake.
Escaping line ends with "\" could also be a mistake.
> 2. With the latter, you might accidentally put something in
> between and it will still "work"
> [...]
> but it is a recipe for confusion.
This "feature" could easily be suppressed.
,----
| long-line: "This is going to be a really, really, really, really,
| long-line: really, really, really, really, really long string"
`----
Visually evident that the second line is acontinuation of the first
one.
,----
| long-string: "This is going to be a really, really, really, really,\
| really, really, really, really, really long string"
`----
Could be a syntax error!? Ahhh, at the END of the first line there's
an escape.
> What do others think?
Yes, what do others think?
Best regards,
cu, -cc-
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